Service Specific Overlay Networks Setup and Maintenance using Pattern-based Management

Service specific overlays are overlay networks build and setup for a single service. Since different services need different types of overlays the setup process is pretty different. Current approaches normal allow to send in a overlay specification into the overlay provisioning system (mainly centralized). In our approach, we use pattern-based management in order to run the process completely distributed but still having a basic communication pattern to be reused for other overlays with different requirement. In this talk, we present the concept and a first implementation on the Simpson pattern simulator of KTH